Tuesday • PNC Pavilion at Riverbend

Like Tegan & Sara (with whom they’ve
toured), Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Brooklyn Indie Pop band Lucius
wrap their vocals around each other, both in harmony and unison, with
the impressive precision of two vocalists who’ve sung together their
entire lives.

Panic! at the Disco fights hate, 'Punk Starter Kit' sells out and using DJs for crowd control

Panic! at the Disco counters hate group's protest by donating $20 to the Human Rights Campaign for every protester that shows up, the handmade 'Punk Starter Kit' brings some Hot Topic flavor to Etsy and a Belgian mayor hires a DJ to chase away loitering 'gypsies.'

After the relatively new Alternative music-focused Bunbury and last week’s brand new Country-centric Buckle Up, this weekend welcomes back one of Cincinnati’s classic fests — the two-day R&B/Soul music-celebrating Macy’s Music Festival.

Sony reportedly offers tween Metal band contract potentially worth $1.7 million, Robin Thicke's Paula is a massive flop, but you can still buy Thicke-approved flower bouquets named after songs from it and the upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic apparently has some truthiness issues.

If you were excited to catch New Jersey Indie Pop duo Brick + Mortar at last weekend’s Bunbury Music Festival, you were probably also disappointed that the twosome’s set was cut short due to bad weather. But next month you’ll have another chance to see the band. And it won’t cost you a penny. When the Mid...

Cincinnati Pop rockers Mixtapes have been
playing numerous dates on this year’s Warped Tour, including the local
stop at Riverbend Music Center (riverbend.org)
on Wednesday. The band’s hometown fans should probably make plans to
attend the all-day show, as it will be one of the last chances to catch
the group locally for some time.

Thursday • Bogart’s

Though the concept of a musician becoming
a “guitar god” — a guitarist who not only has a strong fan base, but is
also almost universally revered by his or her peers -— may seem like
something that only happened decades ago, with players like Jimi Hendrix
and Stevie Ray Vaughan rightfully earning such distinction, there are
plenty of contemporary players that have attained “god-like” status in
the music community. One of today’s indisputable guitar gods is Zakk
Wylde, the hard-rocking, Jersey-born six-string slinger who’s been in
the spotlight for more than a quarter century now.

Friday • MOTR Pub

Legend has it that Josh Siegel, frontman
for dynamic Chicago Post Punk trio Bailiff, left behind his studies at
Berklee College of Music and returned to his Chicago home to form a Rock
band, immediately posting a Craigslist ad looking for other musicians
that asked, “Do you consider Radiohead to be soul music? Do you hear
Muddy Waters in between the notes on the White Album?”